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Many of them had cut longbows and many of them were armed with the spears and crossbows of fallen warriors. - (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter 24, Sentence #144)

I motioned to the others to remain back and, carrying a shield and spear in addition to my sword, approached the rampart. On the roof of the palace beyond the double rampart I could occasionally see the head of a tarn and I heard their screams. Tarns, however, would not be too effective against the rebels in the city. Many of them had cut longbows and many of them were armed with the spears and crossbows of fallen warriors. It would be risky business coming close enough to bring talons into play. And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace. Trained infantry, incidentally, might move rapidly through the streets of a city with shields locked over their heads, much in the fashion of the Roman testudo, but this formation requires discipline and precision, martial virtues not to be expected in high degree of the rebels of Tharna. - (Outlaw of Gor)